From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Letter from an Engineer and Carriage Builder detailing modifications made to chassis, including replacing bronze trunnions with steel ones.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 80\2\ scan0149 | |
| Date | 4th May 1920 | |
| X.2628 T.H. Gill, Engineer & Automobile Carriage Builder, 25 Chilworth Street, Hyde Park, W. (close to G.W.R. terminus). COPY. JJG/K.{Mr Kilner} 4th.May 1920. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Conduit Street, London.W. Dear Sirs, I am in receipt of your favour of the 3rd.inst. ref., CL27/H3.5.20 and note your remarks. I have pleasure in stating that I am not now fitting cantilever springs to your make of chassis, although I have made some special steel trunnions with 3 per cent nickel steel pins as one or two cars which came down here after conversions have had bronze trunnions which as I have explained to the owners are absolutely unreliable and have therefore made steel trunnions to take their place. The only alterations I am making to your make of chassis, are raising the Radiators and making 16 gauge aluminium bonnets and these are done under very careful supervision and I am pleased to say that out of all those that I have done I have not had one report of inefficiency or inequality of workmanship. On some of the older models I am fitting the mixture control on the top of the steering as when the same was on the dash and I put a new scuttle dash it made it almost impossible for the driver to reach it. Contd, | ||